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Tritium Recovery from Liquid Lithium-Lead by Vacuum Degassing
- Source :
- Nuclear Technology - Fusion. 4:407-411
- Publication Year :
- 1983
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1983.
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Abstract
- Various techniques for tritium removal from the liquid eutectic Li/sub 17/Pb/sub 83/ under vacuum are considered as candidates for the tritium removal system (TRS) for the Mirror Advanced Reactor Study (MARS). The TRS baseline parameters require the removal of 60% of the tritium contained in the liquid metal at a tritium partial pressure of 1.0 x 10/sup -4/ torr (0.013 Pa). Degassing from a droplet spray was chosen as the preferred design option, although removal from thin films is a feasible alternative. Vacuum removal from a stirred pool was rejected because of the size and relatively poor transport conditions. The use of an inert purge gas was also rejected due to the large purge gas flow rate and the problem of separating tritium from a large quantity of inert gas.
- Subjects :
- Inert
Liquid metal
Materials science
020209 energy
Radiochemistry
Ultra-high vacuum
General Engineering
02 engineering and technology
Partial pressure
01 natural sciences
Purge
010305 fluids & plasmas
Nuclear physics
Torr
0103 physical sciences
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Tritium
Inert gas
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02723921
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Technology - Fusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........75a53250b4443be4ec8c683842f4b1e4